Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jun 7: City corporation officials have imposed a fine of Rs 53,000 on an apartment in the city. The fine was levied as the residents of the building failed to sort the garbage in spite of instructions from the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC).

The MCC had mandated that every apartment in the city had to properly segregate garbage into dry waste and wet waste. Wet waste has to be processed and used by the apartment while the dry waste is carried by the garbage collection vehicles. The MCC had warned that it would impose a penalty for non-compliance with this instruction.

The apartment in question at Chilimbi did not pay heed to repeated instructions as above. The dwellers in the said complex continued to hand over garbage to the vehicles without sorting the same. MCC, which took serious notice of this violation, levied a fine of Rs 500 to each of the flats in the building. The apartment has also been warned of severing water connection if it fails to pay the fine.

MCC commissioner Akshy Sridhar, visited the apartment concerned on Sunday June 6 and conducted an inspection. Sources from MCC said that action will be taken against residents who continue to overlook instructions of the city corporation.